Out of the more than 7.7 million Ohioans registered to vote, there are only four duplicate
registrations, down from more than 340,000 in January of 2011.

That’s according to Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has made it a priority of his
office to “clean up” the state’s voter rolls.

“Maintaining accurate and up-to-date voter rolls is an ongoing process that is important in
helping to ensure greater security and more efficiency in the administration of elections in Ohio,”
Husted said yesterday in a release. “The success our state has had in cleaning up the voter rolls
is one example of how we are making it easier to vote and harder to cheat.”

Husted said that more than 129,500 voters have updated their addresses online, while the names
of nearly 245,000 dead people have been removed from Ohio’s rolls.

Husted also forwarded 20 possible cases of people voting in Ohio and in another state in the
2012 presidential election to Attorney General Mike DeWine for review.

According to DeWine’s office, of those 20 cases there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute in
five, 13 were forwarded to county prosecutors, one pleaded guilty to voter fraud, and a 20th case
is still under investigation.

The 20 cases of potential multistate voting were found through Ohio’s partnership with 21 other
states.

In January, Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections followed a Husted directive to examine all
complaints of voter fraud to determine if there was enough evidence for further review. The boards
forwarded 115 cases out of 625 complaints to local prosecutors.

Add the 115 local cases with the 20 potential instances of multistate voting, and even assuming
all were guilty, Ohio would’ve had a voter-fraud rate in 2012 of 0.0024 percent out of 5.63 million
votes cast.